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199.380 Boarding and lodging homes for children under sixteen in counties containing city of second class -- Authority to operate -- Investigation -- Revocation of authority.

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199.380 Boarding and lodging homes for children under sixteen in counties containing city of second class -- Authority to operate -- Investigation -- <br>Revocation of authority. No person or persons shall board or lodge children under the age of sixteen (16) years, or <br>in any manner conduct a boarding home or boarding house for children under the age of <br>sixteen (16) years, unless authorized and empowered so to do, in writing, by the health <br>officer of the county in which such boarding home or boarding house is conducted. <br>Before authorizing or empowering any person or persons to board or lodge children under <br>the age of sixteen (16) years, or in any manner to conduct a boarding house or boarding <br>home for such children, the health officer to whom an application is made for such <br>authority or power shall make or cause to be made, an investigation to determine whether <br>such person or persons have made suitable, sanitary and satisfactory arrangements for the <br>health of such children. When such authority and power have been granted by a health <br>officer the same may be revoked at any time, in the discretion of said health officer, when <br>he shall determine that arrangements for the health of the children boarded or lodged in <br>such boarding home or boarding house are unsuitable and unsatisfactory, and in no event <br>shall such authority and power be effective for a longer period than one (1) year following <br>the granting of same. Whenever the health officer of any county shall be notified by the <br>juvenile session of District Court of such county, or notified by the probation officer <br>thereof, that the person or persons operating a boarding home or boarding house for <br>children under the age of sixteen (16) years are not making suitable and satisfactory <br>arrangements for the health of the children being boarded or lodged therein, he shall make <br>or cause to be made an investigation to determine whether or not the power and authority <br>of such person or persons to operate such home shall be revoked. Any person who boards <br>or lodges a child under the age of sixteen (16) years without having the permit provided <br>for herein shall be guilty of an offense and punished as provided in subsection (3) of KRS <br>199.990. Effective: July 15, 1980 <br>History: Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 188, sec. 152, effective July 15, 1980. -- Amended 1970 Ky. Acts ch. 92, sec. 62. -- Created 1946 Ky. Acts ch. 13, sec. 1. Note: This section was amended by 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 280, sec. 141, which was to have become effective July 1, 1982. Thereafter, 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 284 changed the <br>effective date of that act to July 15, 1984. Then, 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 184 repealed both <br>1980 Ky. Acts ch. 280, and 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 284.